Disco Sunday #35: LoveNoodles

June 8, 2008 - posted by Baron von Luxxury 5

Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:44:49 -0700
From: “Alona Esposito”
To: “Baron Von Luxxury”
Subject: post

Two finds, both genuine crate digger finds encoded by me. I still remember the day I got them!

Artist: Banzaii
Track: Chinese Kung Fu – Disco Version
Format: 7″
Label: Scepter
Release Date: 1975
Discogs link: http://www.discogs.com/release/1249013

Story:

I met this guy in Oakland that throws plays a lot of latin funk and soul – He does a night at Radio Bar in Oakland. I think I may have answered a record selling post on craiglist or myspace, but it turns out I had frequented his night before so we had a good little in-the-same circle handshake over that one. He plays good tunes.

Anyway, dude was selling some vinyl, and I went to his office near Jack London square. He had MAD 7″s. Piles and piles, and a rinky dinky fischer price (might as well have been) turntable that I did my “typical touch down touch down pass, touch down touch down keep” quickie record evaluation on. I always feel like I know from the first two beats of a song whether it’s my steez or not. I’m stubborn like that.

He said, “Sorry there is so many”, and I said “Don’t worry about me, I’m sorting your entire collection by genre, see you in a bit.” I did separate everything into funk, disco, and rock, and pulled aside about 30 7″s I thought were good. He let me HAVE THEM because I sorted all his stuff for him.

This Chinese Kung Fu record was my favorite of all of them. It appears to be a one hit wonder type deal as they have only released two tracks. These kind of finds are my favorite because you wouldn’t find it through research. Just a lucky score! I’ve never met anyone that’s heard of it.

I hope it’s not too “Swinger’s night on the Love Boat” for you guys.

MP3: “Chinese Kung Fu (Disco Version)” – Banzaii

Artist: Brian Ferry
Track: The Right Stuff – Dub Version edited by the Latin Rascals
Format: 12″
Label: Reprise
Release Date: 1987
Discogs link: http://www.discogs.com/release/364579

Story:

I found this at Amoeba for a dollar on one of my digging Saturdays (I have 4 stores I like to walk to in a specific route…) – Brought it home and called two people, my buddy TKDisko and Latin Rascals edit. A lot of people think that 80’s slick tricky slicing is cheezy, but I think it needs to be taken in context. These were tape edits man. Have you ever done a tape edit? I did ONCE. Shit takes for ever. It takes a lot of foresight and patience and a psychotic dedication. I appreciate that. 30 seconds in it has a little reversed bar, a slice played backwards which I think is sick.

[Ed. note: the original track was produced by "True Blue" era Madonna collaborator/producer Patrick Leonard]

MP3: “The Right Stuff (Latin Rascals Dub Edit)” – Bryan Ferry

This reminds me of eat it! slap! – a dark dubby electro track that Bret Lee and I made about 8 years ago. We played all this shit live on a linn drum i think – a dx7 – and oberheim synth – an sh-101 and a vocoder. Dave was drunk on the couch vocoding , bret was drum programming and I did most of the synth work. It was an hour jam which I edited down to a cohesive song. It was my favorite work that we ever did.

I didn’t know what it was back then but now it sounds like dark dubby electro. I like the reverse little loop at the 8 second mark: very “Latin Rascals.”

MP3: “eat it! slap!” – Alona & Bret Lee

<3,
Lovenoodles Alona